TRADITIONAL VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays
the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or
shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays
the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands
to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and
starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering
grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table
filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this
be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to
suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries
when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green."
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the
news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has
the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry
King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and call
for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act
retroactive to the beginning of the summer! The ant is fined for failing
to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to
pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation
suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal
judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare
recipients. The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the
ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be
the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a
drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang
of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008.

The Point of No Return

There is much disagreement as to who said the words in the next few paragraphs. Many people attribute them to an eighteenth century Scotsman named Alexander Tytler, but regardless of the author, when taken literally and applied to today, they are chilling to say the least.

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.

A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.

From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years those nations always progressed through the following sequence.

From bondage to spiritual faith
From spiritual faith to great courage
From courage to liberty
From liberty to abundance
From abundance to complacency
From complacency to apathy
From apathy to dependence
From dependence into bondage"

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Vote with audacity & hope.

well said,

Looks very close to Denmark's, current situation.

From bondage to spiritual faith
From spiritual faith to great courage
From courage to liberty
From liberty to abundance
From abundance to complacency
From complacency to apathy <---- I'd say we're somewhere between here and
From apathy to dependence <---- here....
From dependence into bondage"

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Do I miss being a service advisor ???

Loved your story! I bet all the libs here hated it!

Liberals hate it when anybody promotes actually being responsible for yourself!

I like the analogy but it assumes that everyone in a dire straight is lazy and looking for a handout.....

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You seem to imply that conservatives are never looking for a handout from the government.

Perhaps when there are enough zeros behind the number, it stops looking like welfare.

I think everyone's signature comment should contain their age, what they do for a living, how much money they make, how many kids (dependents) they have, how many employees, married status, what kind of vehicles they own and what hobbies they have.

That way we would have a better understanding of the comments some of these guys make here so we could make an assesment of wether or not this guy is credible.

For some reason I have a hard time believing the libs with the "what can the government do for me" attitude and "share the wealth" attitude does much for a living.

Isn't that the truth... YES!

The problem is, liberals always think that "successful people's" income is disposable not their own!

Liberal parasites: Go to college, make good grades, get a good job, get promoted, WORK YOUR ASS OFF, and if your lucky make a good living. You want what I have? You do what I've done *********. I'm not giving you squat!

If you're not handicapped, why are you asking for a handout?

Did you know that Obama plans to raise taxes for higher income (successful people) after he's elected. Fair? NO! Punished for being successful and responsible!

Now that's a nice one. The assumption that a man's opinion is only valid if he's rich is baseless. Instead of giving you my private information, I could come up with some assessments of credibility that offend you instead, but I'm not going to do that just now.

First of all, I'm sure that you have a faulty definition of "lib." I can't say that I am or am not one, because I do not know your definition. I can say that I'm not a Republican in any way, shape or form. Does that count?

Those oil companies sure are handicapped right now, I guess.

I love the fact that the taxes I pay help pay for food, lodging, & health care of the less fortunate who don't work.

Am I bull****ting or serious?
I grew up in a liberal democrat environment, but find my attitudes changing in relation to my quarterly tax payments.

Unlike many here, I won't make stupid analogies based on false assumptions and ill conceived definitions of conservative/liberal points of view.

To suggest that ones credibility is based on his economic and social status is just plain ignorant and wrong.

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Unlike others here I wont dismiss people merely because they make assumptions of any sort based on whatever conceptions they may hold of liberals and conservatives.

To dismiss people merely because of political opinion is just plain ignorant and wrong.

B